Baserow is a great platform.
But one of my frustrations from time to time is that it is not possible to create a template database and pass it to other users. A scenario that is very common when using Baserow to teach database and API basics.
Luckily, Baserow is a great platform with a well-documented API that makes almost everything possible.
So, I started this weekend project and created an automation with n8n that makes it possible to export an entire database with structure, views and data from the SaaS platform in a JSON format. The front-end was build with Appsmith.
You can test it here.
- Step 1: click the Authenticate Baserow account button and fill in your credentials to get an access token. You can also generate a token yourself and paste it in the textfield if you do not like to enter your credentials in an external tool (I do not save any data)
- Step 2: select the database from the list
- Step 3: click the export button and the download starts once the automation has completed.
Next step is to implement the import process. At this moment, I can already create a new database and the tables, but I am having some problems with creating the fields since Baserow automatically creates 3 fields when generating a new table. So, I need some time to figure this out. I also expect that linked records will cause some challenges, but I feel pretty confident it will work in the end.
I like to keep this project open source:
- Check the Appsmith application on Githhub: GitHub - basicity/import-export-baserow: A tool for exporting Baserow bases from the SaaS platform and importing them in a different workspace or account
- The repo also contains an export of the n8n automation
